Security video from inside the Los Angeles Police station where an officer was attacked shows the violent confrontation.
A security video from inside the Los Angeles police station where a veteran officer was attacked this weekend shows the officer get knocked to the ground and repeatedly pistol-whipped with his own gun before the attacker points the gun at the officer’s chest at close range.
Jose Cerpa Guzman is being held on suspicion of attempted murder of a police officer in lieu of $2.23 million bail. The officer, who has not been identified, was taken to a local hospital but escaped with “bumps and bruises,” according to LAPD Chief Michel Moore.Police have said that Guzman and a watch commander who came upon the scene exchanged gunfire during the incident, and that the LAPD’s Force Investigation Division is investigating the attack.
The video shows Guzman shoving the officer back and taking a swing at him. He then continues to move toward the officer, throwing another punch as the officer is backing up. The officer is knocked off his feet by a blow to the head and falls backward as his feet go in the air. His equipment belt spills several items across the lobby floor.With the officer on the ground and Guzman standing over him, Guzman grabs a 9mm Beretta handgun the officer is carrying in a holster, tugging at it.
On his knees with the officer still on his back, Guzman can be seen aiming the gun at close range at the officer’s chest and throat. He then frees himself from the officer’s grasp and dashes back toward the station doors.An LAPD watch commander comes into the lobby from behind the front desk, sees her colleague on the floor and spots Guzman running out the door still holding the officer’s handgun. As she rushes toward the door, she stops, draws her handgun and takes a shooting stance.
“The officer would have been dead if it had not,” said one LAPD official familiar with the investigation but not authorized to discuss the attack.The watch commander immediately radioed the attack, alerting officers to the fleeing suspect in a white truck, saying shots had been fired at the Harbor station and an officer needed help. A second officer reported that a white truck with the suspect inside was heading south on Harbor Boulevard.
“I am grateful that the officer who was in this incident tonight, who was working the desk, came out to assist this individual to understand what his needs were, that he survived and that during this engagement that he did not lose his life,”Cmdr. Al Labrada, assistant head of South Bureau, said the officer was released from the hospital and was recovering at home. “He is making a good recovery,” Labrada said.
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